Hybrid Neanderthal/Denisovan first generation child

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29. I don't come in contact with many Latin Americans over here

There was a family of Mexicans with us when we went up to the top of Mauna Kea two months ago. The wind was over 70 mph and it was -8° C.

When we finally sought refuge back in the minivan that brought us up there, we were all commenting in our respective languages about how cold it was. The Mexicans assumed none of us spoke any Spanish until I said, „si alguien encuentra un par de orejas congeladas en el suelo, son mías.“ This got a round of serious laughs out of the Mexicans, as well as pleased surprise that one of us gringos spoke it at all.

That wasn‘t even my best linguistic shock treatment in Hawai‘i. In the tiny town of Honoka‘a, where my sister knew of a bakery owned by the family of friends, we popped into a store with some koa bowls. Much to my shock, I heard Catalan being spoken by a couple of other tourists who popped in. My shock was nothing like THEIR shock when I started talking to them in Catalan. They pegged me as a Catalan who wasn‘t from Barcelona, as I did them. I was right, as they were from Sitges, south of Barcelona. Although they were right about me also not being from Barcelona, they were not prepared for where I WAS from